Looted wealth
Published in The News on January 6, 2016
This refers to the
editorial, ‘A shot in the dark’ (January 3). Traders will continue to evade
taxes because they know that those at the helm are themselves corrupt and
therefore lack the moral authority to enforce the writ of the state.
Due to the recently
announced Tax Amnesty Scheme, traders will be able to get away by paying only
one percent of what they have looted from the national wealth. There are laws
to deal with tax evasion. Why does the government not enforce those laws? Why does
it not seize the assets of tax evaders and sell them to the highest bidder? Is
it because our rulers fear that if they punish tax evaders, one day they too
will be penalised for looting the exchequer?
Shakir Lakhani
Karachi
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